An exterior wall of downtown Bar Harbor sandwich shop Melt was destroyed Tuesday morning, June 4, when a car drove into the side of the Main Street building. No one was hurt in the crash, according to police. Credit: Shaun Farrar / Bar Harbor Story

A car destroyed the wall of a building in downtown Bar Harbor Tuesday morning when it crashed into the side of Melt, a takeout restaurant on Main Street.

There were no reported injuries due to the collision, according to the Bar Harbor Police Department.

The accident occurred around 9:45 a.m. when a teenage driver was trying to back out of a parking space but accidentally drove forward into the building, police said. The car, a 2023 Hyundai, “suffered functional damage and the building suffered substantial damage,” police wrote in an accident report.

The restaurant was unoccupied at the time, police said. The driver is not expected to face charges.

Melt, a seasonal business, has been open Wednesdays through Saturdays since early May, according to its website and Instagram feed.

A news reporter in coastal Maine for more than 20 years, Bill Trotter writes about how the Atlantic Ocean and the state's iconic coastline help to shape the lives of coastal Maine residents and visitors....

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